bigsinky

selling off my bare drives. a girl in work want to know if she got a caddy could she use one of these drives for both a mac laptop and a pc laptop. I was unsure. i think i reformatted in fat32 thought it might have been NTFS.

can a mac read a pc hard drive and vice versa? will just be used for pictures and music

Scooby Soon!

i use a standard 1tb WD external hard drive works on mac, windows/wii / xbox etc

bigsinky

how is it formatted?

BuRR

Mac OSX will natively recognise NTFS formatted disks, but will only mount in read-only mode. Software can be used to allow the mac to write to NTFS disks if required.

OSX will work happily with FAT32 disks, but bear in mind there's a filesize limit (approx 4GB) with this filesystem.

Another option would be Fatx (or xFat) but would require a later version of windows (Vista or 7) in order for it to work properly. I don't know about XP.....

jura11

iTrader: (7)

For Mac HDD must be in FAT32,for writing and reading

If you want use NTFS HDD on Mac you can use NTFS-3G or MacFuse,which can allow you read/write on NTFS disc on Mac without the formatting to FAT32.


Jura

bigsinky

ok thanks for that

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

you selling many ?

Ant

+1 i have macfuse installed